Declaration of Interdependence
We recognize the need to change our way of life from the extractive and exploitative colonization and over-consumption that has occurred over the past several hundred years to a regenerative, caring, and life affirming culture.
The heart of regeneration is connection and relationship; we need to restore and repair our relationship with Mother Earth and all of humanity.
The heart of relationship is love and respect. Respect recognizes the sacred in all of creation, in every human being, all of life.
Regenerative economics works toward economic security for all. This is achieved through empowered participation in the processes which create the economic structures shaping our lives, the rules of ownership, money, markets, management, and the metrics we use. Food sovereignty and regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and learning communities form our foundation.
We need to eradicate poverty and systemic racism and we need to reverse climate change.
Regeneration can be done anywhere, starting now, we can’t wait for governments dominated by the people who benefit from the current system to fix what is broken.
We organize local action to take a regenerative, whole community approach to local food, education, governance, energy, and economic systems. We will:
identify lands which need better stewardship and find new ways to connect people with the land using regenerative practices,
pressure local decision-makers to facilitate regenerative education, energy, land stewardship, economic life and governance in our communities and pass resolutions in support of state legislation that helps create a regenerative future.
form a Vermont People’s Assembly made up of the people involved in local regeneration initiatives to call for a just transition to a regenerative way of life and demonstrate how direct democracy can inform the economic, governance, agricultural, and other systemic change we need to avert human extinction and the desecration of our home on Earth.